First US non-Amazon-owned grocer to use palm-scanning tech
Payments Dive
DECEMBER 6, 2022
The retail giant is serving as a technology vendor to an independent grocer reopening soon in Kansas City, Missouri.
Retail Reopening Hinges On Dangerous Discounts
PYMNTS
MAY 27, 2020
retail reopening. Most reports of mall reopenings and other retail post-pandemic debuts in the U.S. For example, the Dillard’s store in Kansas City reported strong traffic as did its neighbors in the city’s Zona Rosa shopping district. Revenge shopping will not be a factor in the U.S.
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Umpqua brings retail banking to Utah, CUSO teams with gift-card firm
American Banker
OCTOBER 27, 2023
Umpqua Bank introduces retail banking in Utah, Kansas City CUSO partners with New York gift-card firm, Huntington Bank looks within for new chief DEI officer and more in the weekly banking news roundup.
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How Academy Bank is using video to improve service efficiency
Bank Innovation
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
When customers walk into one of Academy Bank’s new branches, a banker will guide them to a screen where they can video chat with a specialist at Academy’s headquarters in Kansas City.
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nbkc bank Taps Finastra to Build Conversational Banking App
Bank Innovation
MAY 22, 2019
Kansas City-based nbkc bank is building a conversational banking app with Finastra on the vendor’s growing FusionFabric.cloud open platform.
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Target Circle Loyalty Program To Go Nationwide In October
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
The retailer is said to join other merchants such as Nordstrom , Kohl’s, Nike and Macy’s, which have made bigger investments in loyalty efforts. 19 in five cities: Kansas City, Phoenix, Denver, Indianapolis and Charlotte, North Carolina. The program was to debut on Feb.
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Uber Connect Expands For Holiday Package Delivery
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 9, 2020
locations recently added for Uber Connect include Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Charleston, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Connecticut, Detroit, Fort Myers-Naples, Hampton Roads, Honolulu, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Milwaukee, Minneapolis-St. Louis, Tucson and Upstate New York.
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How Retailers Drive Innovation With Subscriptions (And Payments)
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 21, 2019
Brick-and-mortar retailers, as well as online merchants, are offering consumers all sorts of products and services through the subscription business model, from movies to tea. And retailers are offering innovative subscriptions for all sorts of products.
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Retail Pulse: Madewell Teams With thredUP; Walmart Rolls Out InHome Delivery
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 18, 2019
Brick-and-mortar retailers are joining forces with online reCommerce companies to bring pre-owned merchandise into their stores, adding to their sustainability efforts. Beyond Madewell, other retailers have collaborated with thredUP. The program is rolling out in Pittsburg, Kansas City and Vero Beach, Fla.
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Movie Chain AMC Says It Could Go Broke By Year’s End
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 13, 2020
The August reopening of one of those theaters – the location in Kansas City -- included some extra flair. million theater-goers had attended movies at AMC venues from the time of the theater reopenings, a decline of about 85 percent compared to a year prior. Celebrating the chain’s 100 th anniversary, AMC charged 15 cents for tickets.
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255 Chase Plans Expansion In Top US Markets In 2019
PYMNTS
MARCH 13, 2019
Chase has announced it is expanding its retail footprint into nine of the top American markets, as well as opening dozens of new locations in the greater Washington, D.C Louis, Missouri; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Kansas City, Kansas and Greenville, South Carolina, among others. area, Philadelphia and Boston.
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Fed Says America Needs Instant Payments As Soon As Possible
PYMNTS
AUGUST 7, 2020
Drilling down a bit into why real-time payments are taking on more urgency for retailers, Brainard said research showed that households “with the least liquid resources” — marked by relatively lower income and savings — boosted their spending starting on the day they received emergency-relief payments. A Liquidity Boost? .
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Walmart Bringing Back Delivery To Refrigerators
PYMNTS
JUNE 7, 2019
eCommerce for the retailer, said the move is aimed at finding new ways to offer cheap and speedy online delivery. The service will launch to more than one million customers in Kansas City, Missouri, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Vero Beach, Florida in the fall. Reuters , citing Marc Lore, head of U.S.
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Target Brings New Personalized Loyalty Program To More Cities
PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
The program, called Target Circle, will now debut in five cities on Feb. Those five cities are: Phoenix, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Denver and Charlotte, North Carolina. However, the retail giant is taking the program one step further, by allowing loyalty members to select a local nonprofit to donate to.
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Target To Bring Fresh, Frozen Groceries To Customers’ Cars
PYMNTS
JUNE 25, 2020
The company said in a release that it piloted the expanded grocery pickup program in Kansas City and in the Twin Cities in Minnesota. The move adds fresh and frozen grocery items to its existing pickup and delivery program.
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AMC Reopens Theaters With 15-Cent Ticket Pricing
PYMNTS
AUGUST 20, 2020
20, 1920 at the corner of 12 th Street and Grand Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri. The reopening coincides with the 100 th anniversary of the launch of the chain, which opened its first theater on Aug. AMC said it plans to reopen another 300 theaters by Sept. 3, in time for Warner Bros.’
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Postmates And NFL Team Up For Food Delivery
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Deshaun Watson has stepped up to the challenge and is using Postmates to deliver meals to frontline workers at Truman Medical Center Hospital Hill in Kansas City.". Even at this late date – the first scheduled game is Sept. 10 – questions linger as to how well fans will abide by safety rules.
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H&R Block Inks Tax Software Partnership With Walmart
PYMNTS
JANUARY 17, 2018
This exclusive retail partnership brings the value, innovation and support of H&R Block do-it-yourself desktop software products to the world’s largest retailer, making the do-it-yourself products even more convenient for clients.”.
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Building The Tire Shop Of The Future With On-Demand Service
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 12, 2019
And it is not necessarily just a tire retailer – Komal said it is more of a logistics company that also happens to sell and install tires. The company services the two metroplexes of Kansas City and Dallas. Both cities are relatively spread out, so people have longer commute times.
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250 Do Grocery Stores Need Happy Hours?
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
But in a world where grocery margins are tight and retailers – particularly brick-and-mortar players – are looking for an edge of any kind, the grocery happy hour is more than an opportunity to fight waste. Look at the number of restaurants that advertise their supersized portions.”.
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Alexa, Stolen Fingerprints And The Rest Of The Week’s News
PYMNTS
APRIL 12, 2019
Retailers Go Mobile to Get Contactless. KVC Health Systems, a child welfare nonprofit based out of Kansas City, has been hit with an email scam. As the use of contactless payments heats up worldwide, retailers are looking to their mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) providers to help them prepare. New Scam Targets Direct Deposit.
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Busting Out – mPOS And The Reshaping Retail Experience
PYMNTS
JUNE 30, 2016
For better or worse, modern times dictate that most people carry their phones with them at all times, for both business and personal use.The same necessity for mobile technology adoption is increasingly becoming true for businesses with conventionally designed retail floors.
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Walmart Pulls Cannabis Christmas Tree From Website
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 18, 2017
Walmart, ever the buzzkill, promptly removed the tree last week — right around the time The Kansas City Star discovered the tree and ran the headline, “Walmart is selling a ‘Weed Marijuana Leaf Christmas Tree’ this season.”. Yes, for marijuana enthusiast with cash to burn, there exists in the world a 7 ft.
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House Financial Services Committee to hold Sept. 26 hearing on real-time payments
CFPB Monitor
SEPTEMBER 25, 2019
George, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. The memo from the FSC Majority Staff indicates the hearing will focus on the development of a real-time payments (“RTP”) system and the risks, regulation, and market features of any future payments system.
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Walmart’s Allswell Goes On Tour; Target To Expand Debut Of New Loyalty Program
PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
Startups in the eCommerce space have long enabled their customers to experience their products in real life (“IRL”) through temporary retail shops, and now, digitally-focused brands belonging to major retailers are taking a similar approach. Fashion retailer Charlotte Russe , which has over 500 stores in the U.S.,
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135 Amazon’s Whole Food Discounts Are Rolling Out Across Dozens Of States
PYMNTS
MAY 30, 2018
As of today, the extra benefits are available at Whole Foods Markets in Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Kansas City, Missouri, Louisiana, New Mexico, northern Nevada, northern California, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah.
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NFL Unveils 2020 Schedule But Questions Persist
PYMNTS
MAY 8, 2020
10 as the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs host the Houston Texans in a rematch of the American Football Conference Divisional playoffs, according to the NFL. Are you ready for some football? The National Football League’s 101st season begins in prime time on Sept. Or will it? “In
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goPuff: Making Convenience More Convenient With Delivery
PYMNTS
MARCH 1, 2019
Our idea is to really create a totally new kind of retail space – one that is really convenient.”. Since the start of 2019, goPuff has opened for business in Nashville, Tennessee; Hartford, Connecticut; Kansas City, Missouri and Baltimore, Maryland, bringing its total number of served cities above 60 in the U.S.
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Cars.com Traffic Revs Up With Carmakers’ Super Bowl Ads
PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
The Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl, but Cars.com is claiming a different kind of victory. Traffic on the online car retailer’s site spiked following TV advertising spots from auto brands during the game, according to a Monday, Feb. 3 press release from Cars.com.
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Amazon Loading Whole Foods With Its Own Executives
PYMNTS
JUNE 15, 2018
At the end of May it took a further step toward that end by expanding the number of states where Amazon Prime for Whole Foods is offered — it is now available in Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Kansas City, Missouri, Louisiana, New Mexico, northern Nevada, northern California, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah.
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Car Vending Machine Company Carvana Goes Up Against Wall Street
PYMNTS
MARCH 11, 2020
billion, on an 82 percent increase in retail sales. That is the most organic growth of any automotive retailer ever in the U.S. Orlando, Tempe, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Kansas City, Greensboro, Westminster (L.A.), Oklahoma City, and Memphis. In 2019, we increased GPU by $750.
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CFPB announces new appointments to advisory groups
CFPB Monitor
AUGUST 22, 2016
Retail Bank, Citibank, New York, NY. Hughes, Senior Vice President and Director of Mortgage and Retail Lending, First Federal Savings Bank of Twin Falls, Twin Falls, IA. Trent Sorbe, President, Central Payments Division, Central Bank of Kansas City, Kansas City, MO. Jacksonville, FL.
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Intercepted: Live League Sports Revenue Drop May Take Years To Recover
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 28, 2020
While the worst fears haven’t been realized — the NFL opened its 2020 season in September with a showdown between (Super Bowl champs) the Kansas City Chiefs and the Houston Texans — the outlook across the pantheon of live sports is anything but settled as November 2020 begins.
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UMB Adjusts Sales Incentives for Branch Employees
American Banker
OCTOBER 26, 2016
UMB Financial in Kansas City, Mo., has made changes to incentive compensation for its branch employees.
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Predicting the future
Celent Banking
MAY 5, 2015
serving as the Chairman of Bankers Trust at the time, at the Kansas City Fed’s economic symposium. ” “A key feature of 2020 is that nearly everything could be tailored to a client’s needs or wishes at a reasonable price, including highly personalized service from financial companies. .” Sanford, Jr.,
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Startups Compete With Facebook For Home Services
PYMNTS
JUNE 5, 2018
Lula, for example, focuses on a small area — just Kansas City, although it plans to expand to a few more cities in the future. Each company is seeking to carve out a niche in specific areas of the country and “there’s not one go-to right now,” Matteson said.
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126 Chipotle’s Loyalty Program And Developing A Digital Experience
PYMNTS
MARCH 13, 2019
The fast casual chain first began testing the program in Columbus, Kansas City and Phoenix last fall, and has been developing the idea of a digital-centric loyalty program for the last few years. Though Chipotle rolled out its points-based loyalty system nationwide yesterday, the upgrade itself has been a long time coming.
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Amazon Or Walmart? Who Won 2019’s Race For The Consumer’s Whole Paycheck
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 31, 2019
A little more than a year ago, PYMNTS started tracking the race for the consumer’s whole paycheck between the two retail behemoths that have been expanding their respective ecosystems in the process: Amazon and Walmart. percent of consumer retail spending in the U.S., percent of consumer retail spending in the U.S., population.
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Straightforward Principles of Success
Independent Banker
NOVEMBER 24, 2014
Retail locations: Three. He also serves on the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and Denver Branch board of directors, and is active in supporting community bank efforts nationally. Under the big Montana sky, Mark Zaback helps lead a community bank with a cowboy code. Western Region Award Recipient. Casper, Wyo. Title: CEO.
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94 Are You Ready For Some Football (Commerce)?
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 9, 2017
Well, we had a totally different intro written for this piece before the New England Patriots blew it on Thursday night and threw away (and we mean, literally threw away) their home football opener to the Kansas City Chiefs. Insert palm-to-head motion here.). Consumer spending has some economists pulling out their worry beads.
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Mobile Payments: What’s In It For Me?
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 13, 2016
London transportation that accepts Oyster will support mobile payments of up to £30 only, and for larger amounts, users can use Vodafone Pay at retailers, which requires a PIN. ” While the Fed added fuel to the cybersecurity fire today as Kansas City Federal Reserve President Esther George stated that concerns with cybersecurity in U.S.
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Temenos to Acquire Kony: So What?
Gonzobanker
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
With its Quantum offering, Kony has several clients outside of the financial services vertical including the retail likes of Michael’s and Amway. While the Commerce implementation is still in progress, signings of Varo Bank and PayPal followed as well as the 2018 acquisition of high-end origination provider Avoka.
Super Bowl Commerce Preview: Avocados, Spiteful Beer And A $6M Thank-You
PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 1, 2020
The Super Bowl is nearly upon us – the Kansas City Chiefs are headed to their first “big game” in 50 years to take on the San Francisco 49ers, who haven’t been there since the 2012 season, and haven’t held the Vince Lombardi Trophy since 1995. For San Francisco, it’s a chance to recapture some past glory.
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Lobster In The Desert (And Anywhere Else It’s Needed)
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 4, 2017
The goal is simple: By cutting out the middlemen of seafood dealers and distributors and negotiating directly with UPS, the lobstering union thinks it can capture more of the profit from retail sales seafood and make lobsters a bit more accessible for consumers at the same time. “As
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